Information about cancer villages

whether cancer has anything to do with living environment and region, through the following 18 cancer villages, it may arouse our thinking

[ Edit this paragraph ]1. Yangqiao Village

Region: located in Guhe Town, Funing County, Yancheng City, Jiangsu Province.

environment: the industrial waste gas emitted by pesticide plant and chemical plants near the village is very smelly, so villagers have to cover their noses and mouths with wet towels at night to fall asleep. The factory sewage pipe discharges yellow oily liquid into the wheat field, and the wheat seedlings near the sewage outlet are either dead or yellow; Sometimes there are a lot of dead fish and shrimp floating on the river, and there are often red floating objects in villagers' well water, which can't be drunk; The waterworks are less than 1 meters away from the sewage outlets of pesticide plant and chemical plants, and the tap water sometimes smells of pesticides.

diseases: lung cancer, esophageal cancer, etc.

Consequence: 8% of the villagers often feel lung discomfort, dyspnea and dizziness due to the pungent smell, especially the elderly and children often cough and feel chest tightness. More than 2 villagers died of cancer in three years. In 24, nearly 1 people were diagnosed with cancer. The number of people who died of cancer in the fifth, sixth and seventh village groups near pesticide plant and Chemical Factory accounted for 7% of the total number of people who died in the three groups in three years. Villagers feed chickens and pigs with their own food. Chickens don't lay eggs and pigs don't eat them, so they dare not eat them themselves. They can only sell them and go to town to buy food produced elsewhere.

[ Edit this paragraph ]2. Guangfeng Village

Location: It is located in Guangyi Town, Chong 'an District, Wuxi City, Jiangsu Province, with 2 villagers.

Environment: There are many drainage pipes on both sides of Ma Jiahe Bang in Guangfeng Village, which stinks and the river is black, and the domestic sewage discharged by 2, households in Shili New Village is collected here; The industrial waste gas from chemical plants around Guangfeng Village and the strange smell from liquefied gas companies ... made the villagers afraid to open the window.

diseases: lung cancer, liver cancer, etc.

Consequence: More than 6% of the total number of cancer patients in the town are in this village. In recent years, nearly 2 people died of cancer, and nearly 3 people were newly diagnosed with cancer.

[ Edit this paragraph ]3. Longling Village

Location: It is located in Guapo Town, Hua County, Shaanxi Province, with 3 households and 154 people.

environment: four kilometers northwest of Longling village are Shaanxi chemical fertilizer plant and compound chemical fertilizer plant, and the northwest wind blows the pollutants scattered by the plants to Longling village. The lead content of locally produced flour is 1.6 times higher than the national standard, and the chromium content is 2.98 times higher than the national standard. Cadmium, lead, mercury, arsenic and chromium in celery all exceed the standard, of which mercury is 16 times higher than the national standard and lead is 83.5 times higher than the national standard, which belongs to super pollution; Cadmium, lead, mercury, arsenic and chromium in Bupleurum chinense DC. exceeded the standard, and lead was 91.5 times higher than the national standard. Lead in bean leaves is 191 times higher than the national standard; Chromium in walnut is 2.9 times higher than the national standard; Lead in rapeseed is 75 times higher than the national standard. The cultivated land, non-cultivated land and indoor land in the village are all polluted by lead, chromium, arsenic, copper, zinc and nickel.

Diseases of dying patients: esophageal cancer.

Consequence: All villagers' hair was seriously polluted by lead, arsenic, manganese and phosphorus. 36 people in the village died of cancer, accounting for 61% of all deaths.

[ Edit this paragraph ]4. Hangji Village

Location: It is located in Dayi Town, Yizheng City, Yangzhou City, Jiangsu Province, with 932 households and 358 people.

environment: the permanganate index and ammonia nitrogen index of well water with residents' homes exceed the standard.

diseases: esophageal cancer, liver cancer.

Consequence: In recent years, there are many cancer patients, and there are about 2 people in the village.

[ Edit this paragraph ]5. Shangba Village

Location: located in wengyuan county, Guangdong Province, with 3,265 people.

Black and smelly river water environment: Since the mining of Dabaoshan Mine, a large amount of washing wastewater containing cadmium, lead, chromium and other heavy metals has been discharged into Hengshi River flowing through Shangba Village without any treatment; Due to the lack of effective treatment, 27 kilograms of concentrated sulfuric acid was produced per ton after the surface soil of the mine was completely oxidized, and a large amount of heavy metals were lost with the soil, which polluted the water body. No living things were found in the 1.5 km channel of Hengshi River, and the ecosystem was still not restored until 5 km downstream.

diseases: esophageal cancer, gastric cancer and liver cancer.

Consequence: The villagers' daily intake of cadmium alone is 178 micrograms, which is 3.6 times the standard set by the World Health Organization. Since the early 198s, 21 people in the village have died of cancer, and the incidence of cancer is more than nine times the national average.

[ Edit this paragraph ]6. Huangmengying Village

Location: Huangmengying Village is located in shenqiu county, Henan Province, with 726 households and 2,471 people.

environment: industrial sewage and domestic sewage from Zhengzhou, Kaifeng, Luohe, Xuchang, Zhoukou and other places are all discharged into Shaying River, and the river with bad black odor flows into Huangmengying Village, and the fish and shrimp in its main canals and ponds gradually disappear.

Diseases: esophageal cancer, gastric cancer, intestinal cancer, liver cancer and lung cancer.

Consequence: The prevalence rate of cancer in villagers is obviously high, and the cancer death is getting more and more year by year. In the past 14 years, 15 people died of cancer in the village, accounting for 51.5% of the total number of deaths. Most of them died at the age of 5, and the youngest was only one year old.

[ Edit this paragraph ]7. Beilaoguanzui Village

Location: It is located in Xun County, Henan Province, with 1,274 people.

environment: the village is located along the Weihe River. There are 142 papermaking enterprises in the upper reaches of Weihe River, including Xinxiang City, more than 6 in Jiaozuo City and 17 in hua county. Most of them are small enterprises. Some of them discharge industrial wastewater below the standard, and some have no sewage purification equipment at all, which leads to serious pollution of Weihe River. The pollution load caused by these enterprises accounts for more than 8% of the local area. The Weihe River, which flows through Beilaoguanzui Village, is dark and red, with a layer of foam floating on its surface. It can smell a strange smell at a distance of 1 meters, and it is also mixed with fishy smell. When it is hot, the whole village smells fishy. The well water in the villagers' home is turbid, with black and yellow particles floating, and the smell is pungent.

diseases: esophageal cancer, gastric cancer, lymphoma, lung cancer, liver cancer, uterine cancer and intestinal cancer.

Consequence: In 1 years, 112 people died of cancer, accounting for 9% of the deaths in the village. Among cancer deaths, more than 5% are under 5 years old. Due to the long-term use of sewage to irrigate the land, the alkalinity of the land increases and hardens, and the grain output decreases; The pigs raised by villagers can only grow to more than 5 kilograms, and most of them suffer from hoof rot.

[ Edit this paragraph ]8. Ludian Township

Location: Located in Xiping County, Henan Province, there are eight "cancer villages" along the Honghe River.

environment: the Honghe River, which is polluted to be inferior to Grade 5 water quality, flows through Ludian Township. About 4 kilometers upstream of the polluted river is Haiming Group Co., Ltd., a papermaking enterprise in wugang city, and about 1.5 kilometers upstream of the polluted river is Huayu Cement Co., Ltd. in Wuyang County, and Sanlihe Paper Mill in Wuyang County also discharges pollutants into the river. The 3-meter-deep well water in the villagers' home still smells fishy. When it is boiled, there are bubbles like soap bubbles, which can only be drunk after being filtered and boiled. The multiple of nitrite nitrogen in drinking water here is more than 54.5 times!

diseases: laryngeal cancer, lung cancer, liver cancer, gastric cancer, etc.

Consequence: In 1 years, 1,838 people died in eight villages, with an average annual mortality rate of 9.7%. , far higher than the national mortality rate; Moreover, the mortality rate is increasing year by year, and the mortality rate in 25 was as high as 12.2%. . The age of the dead is concentrated between 45 and 7 years old. Villagers along the river used river water to irrigate farmland, resulting in large-scale death of crops such as tobacco leaves, wheat and corn. Every year, more than 5, mu of crops are affected by water pollution in this township, and the direct economic loss is more than 1 million yuan.

[ Edit this paragraph ]9. Liukuaizhuang Village and Xiditou Village

Location: Located in Xiditou Town, Beichen District, Tianjin, it was once a well-known land of plenty.

environment: there are more than 9 chemical plants around the two villages, including chemicals, dye intermediates, paints and coatings, pesticides and veterinary drugs, flavors and fragrances. These chemical plants produce around the clock, producing black smoke, sewage, odor and noise. In particular, toxic and harmful chemical wastewater is directly transferred from the factory to the river near the village, and the sewage pipes are buried in the vegetable fields, so that the water storage canals originally used for irrigation are all filled with red, black and yellow chemical residues. The four indexes of volatile phenol, fluoride and total bacteria in local water sources are unqualified, among which volatile phenol and fluoride are toxic substances; The concentration of odor emitted by chemical plants in the air was randomly selected to be 12 times higher than the national standard.

diseases: lung cancer, gastric cancer, etc.

Consequence: Among the 19 villagers surveyed, 148 have headaches and nausea all the year round, and 39 often suffer from respiratory diseases such as asthma and tracheitis. In the past few years, more than 2 people in the two villages have died of cancer, most of which are lung cancer. The high-density waste water and waste gas discharged from chemical plants leads to the barren grass on the ground, the air filled with dust and stench, and the radish, Chinese cabbage and fruit planted by villagers are not bought because of pollution.

[ Edit this paragraph ]1. Feilong Village

Area: Located in Longshi Town, Hechuan, Chongqing, there are about 5 villagers in the sixth and seventh groups.

environment: the situation is unknown.

diseases: liver cancer, esophageal cancer, rectal cancer, lung cancer and leukemia.

Consequence: The number of cancer patients has suddenly increased since 21. In the following three years, 17 cancer patients were diagnosed and 14 died.

[ Edit this paragraph ]11. Shexian County

Region: Shexian County is located in Hebei Province, including Guxin, Shentou, Jingdian and other towns, with about 2, people.

environment: in 198s, there were many caustic soda plants, fly ash plants and paper mills in villages and towns in Shexian county. In the 199s, the local government relocated and closed all these small polluting factories, but the incidence of cancer was still not controlled < P > Diseases: esophageal cancer, gastric cancer and cardiac cancer < P > Consequences: about 1, people have surgery for malignant tumors such as esophageal cancer every year; At least 5% ~ 6% of the annual deaths are patients with esophageal cancer and gastric cancer. The mortality rate of esophageal cancer in China is 12/1,, which is 244/1, in this county and 14/1, in some villages and towns.

[ Edit this paragraph ]12. Xiaojiadian Village

Location: It is located in Feicheng City, Shandong Province, with 1, ~ 2, people.

Environment: The Dawen River, which flows through Xiaojiadian village, has some upstream counties and cities where enterprises such as papermaking, printing and dyeing, chemical industry, machinery, metallurgy, mining, steel, electric power, brewing, food processing, textile, pesticide and coal are concentrated. Feicheng City, where Xiaojiadian Village is located, is also focusing on the development of coal mining, coking, paper making and wine making. However, these enterprises discharge pollutants into Dawen River, causing serious pollution of the river. The water quality of many river sections is the worst five categories of pollution all the year round, among which nitrite, a strong carcinogen, seriously exceeds the standard and manganese exceeds the standard by 57 times. Soil and vegetables are polluted by highly toxic elements, among which, the chromium content in wheat exceeds the standard by 1.7 times, the lead content in Chinese cabbage by 2 times, the cadmium content in spinach by 9 times, the chromium content in lettuce leaves by 12 times, and the chromium content by 4 times.

diseases: gastric cancer, esophageal cancer and liver cancer.

Consequence: In 4 years, 56 people died of cancer.

[ Edit this paragraph ]13. Yangzhuang Township

Location: Located in Suzhou City, Anhui Province, there are 16 administrative villages near Kuihe River in the township.

environment: the Kuihe River, which passes through Yangzhuang Township, is a tributary of the Huaihe River, with white foam rolling on the river surface and a pungent smell. The new well of the villagers' home smells when the water is pumped up. In the past, everyone in the village bathed and swam in the Kuihe River, but no one went there after the 196s and 197s. There used to be fish and aquatic plants in the river, but now there is nothing. There used to be 2, mu of paddy fields here, but now farmers can only plant corn and beans because the polluted rice can't be sold.

diseases: liver cancer and lung cancer.

Consequence: In a village with more than a thousand people, about 1 people die of cancer every year on average.

[ Edit this paragraph ]14. Eight townships along the Le 'an River

Region: Located in Jingdezhen City, Jiangxi Province, the Le 'an River passes through eight townships in the city.

environment: there are more than 2 kinds of harmful pollutants in river water exceeding the standard seriously, and hundreds of thousands of acres of fertile land in eight coastal towns are barren, and more than 1 "cancer villages" have appeared. The concentrations of iron, manganese and carbon ammonia in drinking water of coastal residents exceeded the standard by 7.4 times, 18.8 times and 3.8 times respectively.

diseases: esophageal cancer, liver cancer.

Consequence: Daicun Village in Mingkou Town suffered the most. Since 198s, 4-5 people died of esophageal cancer and liver cancer every year, mostly young people.

15. Datuoyuanzi Village

Location: It is located in Tantou Town, Longhui County, Shaoyang City, Hunan Province, with 7 households and 285 people.

environment: the water inspection in this village shows that the water quality is seriously polluted and the mineral content is high.

disease type: unknown.

Consequence: In the past 2 years, there have been 29 cancer patients, of whom 27 have died.

[ Edit this paragraph ]16. Wuli Village

Location: It is located in Nanyang Town, Xiaoshan District, Hangzhou City, Zhejiang Province, with nearly 2, people

Environment: Since 1992, 26 chemical enterprises have settled in Nanyang Town, and they have unscrupulously discharged pollutants, making the river in Wuli Village black, fish and shrimp extinct, and many wells have been abandoned.

diseases: esophageal cancer, liver cancer, gastric cancer, lung cancer, breast cancer, pancreatic cancer and hematologic cancer.

Consequence: In a few years, more than 7 people died of cancer. Cancer deaths account for 8% of the deaths in the village, and its cancer incidence rate is ten times higher than that in the whole province.

[ Edit this paragraph ]17. Guangmenqiao Village

Location: Located in Pengxi County, Suining City, Sichuan Province, there are 37 households with about 1,4 people.

environment: the city and county health departments believe that the reasons are water pollution and food pesticides exceeding the standard.

diseases: gastric cancer, esophageal cancer and oral cancer.

Consequence: In the past 13 years, nearly 4 people suffered from cancer, with an average of more than 3 people dying of cancer every year. 9% of the people suffering from cancer are over 5 years old.

[ Edit this paragraph ]18 Zhaiwan Village, Zhuji Town, Xiangfan City, Hubei Province

Affected by Baihe water pollution, nearly 1 villagers died of cancer in ten years, and many families died of cancer one after another. Especially in the past three years, the cancer mortality rate in Zhaiwan Village is as high as 4 per 1,, which is much higher than the national average. After monitoring by the environmental protection department, it was found that the villagers' well water contained carcinogenic substances such as hexavalent chromium, benzene and toluene. Chen Huanchao, president of Hubei Cancer Hospital, believes that the high incidence of cancer in Zhaiwan Village is directly related to the villagers' long-term drinking of polluted water sources.

19 There is another place in Qianlu Village, Huafeng Town, Ningyang County, Shandong Province

He is in Qianlu Village, Huafeng Town, Ningyang County, Shandong Province. There are chemical plants, pesticide plant and chemical fertilizer plants in that county, and the prevalence of cancer among people there is very, very high. In Qianlu, a small village with more than 2, people, hundreds of people have died in recent years. Such figures can't attract the attention of all departments. I really don't know if there are any people who make decisions for those poor people.